The choir thread

Renille · 10-22-2002, 05:01 PM

I remember a thread for band members...but I have never seen a CHOIR thread.

Is anyone in choir? I am. I'm a soprano in my school's concert choir...it's alot of fun. Choir gives me a chance to express my real feelings in a fun way. I'm usually viewed as the hyper little person, but that's not totally strange. Today, my whole choir went to the conference choral festival at my town's college. A very renowned conductor was our clinician and conductor. The day was a WONDERFUL experience. I wish I got to do a similar thing every day.

Any more choirheads out there?

**crickhollow** · 10-22-2002, 05:05 PM

I haven't been a part of an actual choir for a couple of years, but I'm an alto. I like to be able to sing the part that helps make the sopranoes sound good. I like to think of altoes as the chocolate cake, and sopranoes as the icing

Starr Polish · 10-22-2002, 05:55 PM

I love choir.

I do not, however, love my choir teacher. He has been a real jerk lately (but he is the type to be a jerk most of the time...incredibly stuck up "I'm better than everyone in this town" kind of person).

But I do love to sing. I'm a second soprano, but I can sing as high as a first and lower than several of our altos. I also sing OUT, which is why I'm a second instead of a first, since you can never hear the seconds (stupid freshmen singing first).

I kid around with my first soprano friends, calling them the "stupid singers" since they ALWAYS have the melody.

Fred Baggins · 10-22-2002, 06:42 PM

I am a sop. in my highschool choir. Finally a good school choir!! I was in the recent collage choir since I was eight, but recently left, because i was afraid that I would have to much to do. There is another more in depth answer but you have to understand me and my old director to understand. Anywho...I am compleatly dedicated to my music, and someday hope to be in "The Phantom of the Opera" Big goal i know but I can dream can't I?

Aeryn · 10-22-2002, 07:12 PM

I'm impressed with you opera/choir folks. I think I can hum without getting a tomatoed face, but I've heard choirs and the like and y'all really belt it out.

***IronParrot*** · 10-22-2002, 07:23 PM

I kind of missed out on my high school choir, but that's because I was already so involved with symphonic and jazz bands, joining the choir would mean giving up the only late-afternoons I had left.

I was thinking of auditioning for being the choir accompanist too, but I didn't, and the girl who got it instead... well, she's quite amazing.

I wish my school had vocal jazz. Well, we didn't... oh well

Aeryn · 10-22-2002, 07:30 PM

Man, well, I don't have any talent at singing, don't have the depths of breath or something?
So I have been known to play cello, violin, and piano.
(that sounded really braggy, I am an amateur!)

Starr Polish · 10-22-2002, 07:35 PM

I love vocal jazz! It's amazing. I'm in our school's jazz choir, and I'm looking forward to the songs we're going to sing. They will be amazing!

***Tessar*** · 10-22-2002, 08:12 PM

Well, I don't go to pup-school so I can't sing in one of THOSE. But I am in the church one. I'm in the bass section even though I have a bit of tenor clinging to my voice.

Laurelyn · 10-22-2002, 09:09 PM

I'm a soprano in the Middle School Choir, and B flat is currently my worst enemy.

'nuff said. I'm gonna go back to screeching until I hit the damn note!

Never mind me . . . I can hit the A, but not the B flat.

I love singing tho.
Hey Fred Baggins: Phantom of the Opera rules!! We're singing Masquerade in choir right now . . . hence the B flat . . . and it's fun. I've always loved that show. Have you seen it live?

Fred Baggins · 10-22-2002, 09:22 PM

Laurelyn, That is sooo cool! Masquerade, is one of my favorites! I havn't seen it live though...I actually haven't seen it at all, unless you count about 2 minuets at my local mall with really((and I mean really)) bad actors/actresses. Ah well, I guess my goal is to see it live before I am in it. But then I am not sure if they would let me stay the whole time since I would be singing along with all the songs. Hehe, I have memorized the whole score! I have the CD and I listend to it so much that I was sick of it((yeah for about a day!)) Now I love it again! Anywho I could go on and on, so before I that happens I better go!

Laurelyn · 10-22-2002, 09:27 PM

I saw it live in Toronto 5 years ago.

emplynx · 10-22-2002, 09:29 PM

I'm a tenor in our Show Choir. We are pretty good this year. I hope to get a solo at the christmas concert

***IronParrot*** · 10-22-2002, 09:29 PM

Ah, The Phantom of the Opera... my mother's favourite musical, and probably my favourite Lloyd Webber. I've seen it twice myself - once when I was eight (didn't really remember it well) and once again in London last August, in Her Majesty's Theatre wherein it originally opened. I love it.

Fred Baggins · 10-22-2002, 09:35 PM

*Throughs herself on the floor and has a tantrum* NOFAIRNOFAIRNOFAIRNOFAIR!!!!!! Everyone gets to see it but me!!! WAH!!!!!

anywho I am done now...calm, collected, afterall you are talking((wirting?)) to one of the only people who having not seen it still nows the entire score, word for word, and movement for movment. Just calming myself down, soory if that sounded to much like bragging.

Starr Polish · 10-22-2002, 10:32 PM

Are we really happy with these silly games we play...looking for words to say Hehe..a song our 'varsity' jazz choir sang last year called Masquerade.

Ah, high b flat...yuuck...I've sung one though.

sun-star · 10-23-2002, 09:28 AM

I'm a soprano in our school choir - we've just started learning Christmas carols

Finrod Felagund · 10-23-2002, 02:17 PM

I'm a tenor in four choirs at my school. The 170 voice Bluevale singers, the chamer choir, the male chorus and A Shade of Blue (Sr. Jazz choir)

Renille · 10-23-2002, 04:03 PM

Heehee...B flat! That is possibly one of the most awful notes ever invented. I've been way past that note, but only in warmups with my old vocal coach. But at the choral festival I went to yesterday...eek! I would guess about 50 sopranos were trying to hit that note at the end of one of our songs, a gospel called "Ride on King Jesus" Let me tell you, it was NOT pretty. At the final concert I was so disconcerted that I forced myself down to the second sopranos at the G. That made me feel better.

I wish I was a second like last year...it was alot harder, but so much more interesting. And I was actually the minority. But I'd worked so much on my range and performance over the summer that it seemed a pity not to fly on to top notes!!

I've never seen "Phantom" either. I love the music...so haunting. Has anyone ever seen or heard the Broadway edition of "The Secret Garden?" I love that soundtrack...it is the best. I wish I could see a live performance. Wow...that would be my dream come true.

I get to go to Chicago with choir, band, and orchestra to see "The Lion King" on tour this summer!!

I'm so happy.

***IronParrot*** · 10-23-2002, 06:23 PM

Quote:

"Are we really happy with these silly games we play...looking for words to say"

Yay, the Carpenters!

I play that song on the piano a fair bit... it's got great chords to improv over, and it takes a bossa nova beat really well.

10-22-2002, 05:01 PM	#1
Renille Elven Lady of Speed-posting Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the cheese state Posts: 988	The choir thread I remember a thread for band members...but I have never seen a CHOIR thread. Is anyone in choir? I am. I'm a soprano in my school's concert choir...it's alot of fun. Choir gives me a chance to express my real feelings in a fun way. I'm usually viewed as the hyper little person, but that's not totally strange. Today, my whole choir went to the conference choral festival at my town's college. A very renowned conductor was our clinician and conductor. The day was a WONDERFUL experience. I wish I got to do a similar thing every day. Any more choirheads out there? __________________ Oh the thinks you can think! Think and wonder and dream...far and wide as you dare! When your thinks have run dry, in the blink of an eye, there's another world there... (from Seussical the Musical. Listen to it...watch it...really.)

10-22-2002, 05:05 PM	#2
crickhollow The Buckleberry Fairy/Captain Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Washington State again (I miss Texas). Posts: 1,345	I haven't been a part of an actual choir for a couple of years, but I'm an alto. I like to be able to sing the part that helps make the sopranoes sound good. I like to think of altoes as the chocolate cake, and sopranoes as the icing __________________ A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.

10-22-2002, 05:55 PM	#3
Starr Polish Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Slow down and I sail on the river, slow down and I walk to the hill Posts: 2,389	I love choir. I do not, however, love my choir teacher. He has been a real jerk lately (but he is the type to be a jerk most of the time...incredibly stuck up "I'm better than everyone in this town" kind of person). But I do love to sing. I'm a second soprano, but I can sing as high as a first and lower than several of our altos. I also sing OUT, which is why I'm a second instead of a first, since you can never hear the seconds (stupid freshmen singing first). I kid around with my first soprano friends, calling them the "stupid singers" since they ALWAYS have the melody. __________________ “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.” –Bertrand Russell

10-22-2002, 06:42 PM	#4
Fred Baggins Belladona Gamgee of the night sky Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: second star to the right and straight on till morning. Posts: 1,783	I am a sop. in my highschool choir. Finally a good school choir!! I was in the recent collage choir since I was eight, but recently left, because i was afraid that I would have to much to do. There is another more in depth answer but you have to understand me and my old director to understand. Anywho...I am compleatly dedicated to my music, and someday hope to be in "The Phantom of the Opera" Big goal i know but I can dream can't I? __________________ Emperor Cusco: Lemme guess. We're about to go down a huge water-fall. Pacha:Yep. Cusco: Sharp rocks at the bottum? Pacha:Most likely. Cusco:Bring it on. ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` Yes, I'm female. Fred Baggins is my NICKNAME! ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` "The reason of the unreasonable treatment of my reason so enfeebles my reason, that with reason I complain of your beauty."~Don Quixote ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` "Once upon a time there was a magical land where it never rained. The End."~from the movie 'Holes' ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` ()_))_Crayola_))_>

10-22-2002, 07:12 PM	#5
Aeryn Bank'ress of Sith Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: In a hot-hot place, heh Posts: 913	I'm impressed with you opera/choir folks. I think I can hum without getting a tomatoed face, but I've heard choirs and the like and y'all really belt it out. __________________ my new account name feigndeath. This one is deactivated, I think.

10-22-2002, 07:23 PM	#6
*IronParrot* Fowl Administrator Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Calgary or Edmonton, Canada Posts: 53,420	I kind of missed out on my high school choir, but that's because I was already so involved with symphonic and jazz bands, joining the choir would mean giving up the only late-afternoons I had left. I was thinking of auditioning for being the choir accompanist too, but I didn't, and the girl who got it instead... well, she's quite amazing. I wish my school had vocal jazz. Well, we didn't... oh well __________________ All of IronParrot's posts are guaranteed to be 100% intelligent and/or sarcastic, comprising no genetically modified content and tested on no cute furry little animals unless the SPCA is looking elsewhere. If you observe a failure to uphold this warranty, please contact a forum administrator immediately to receive a full refund on your Entmoot registration. Blog: Nick's Café Canadien

10-22-2002, 07:30 PM	#7
Aeryn Bank'ress of Sith Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: In a hot-hot place, heh Posts: 913	Man, well, I don't have any talent at singing, don't have the depths of breath or something? So I have been known to play cello, violin, and piano. (that sounded really braggy, I am an amateur!) __________________ my new account name feigndeath. This one is deactivated, I think.

10-22-2002, 07:35 PM	#8
Starr Polish Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Slow down and I sail on the river, slow down and I walk to the hill Posts: 2,389	I love vocal jazz! It's amazing. I'm in our school's jazz choir, and I'm looking forward to the songs we're going to sing. They will be amazing! __________________ “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.” –Bertrand Russell

10-22-2002, 08:12 PM	#9
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	Well, I don't go to pup-school so I can't sing in one of THOSE. But I am in the church one. I'm in the bass section even though I have a bit of tenor clinging to my voice.

10-22-2002, 09:09 PM	#10
Laurelyn Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Valinor, right next to Telperion . . . what did you expect, Michigan? Posts: 1,315	I'm a soprano in the Middle School Choir, and B flat is currently my worst enemy. 'nuff said. I'm gonna go back to screeching until I hit the damn note! Never mind me . . . I can hit the A, but not the B flat. I love singing tho. Hey Fred Baggins: Phantom of the Opera rules!! We're singing Masquerade in choir right now . . . hence the B flat . . . and it's fun. I've always loved that show. Have you seen it live? __________________ The Third Age of Entmoot has begun. Angel of music, guide and guardian! Grant to me your glory! The country I eat and spend the day in is by no means the country I sleep and dream in. Define patriotism. Hold the boat, you spastic monkey! ~ Elenka

10-22-2002, 09:22 PM	#11
Fred Baggins Belladona Gamgee of the night sky Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: second star to the right and straight on till morning. Posts: 1,783	Laurelyn, That is sooo cool! Masquerade, is one of my favorites! I havn't seen it live though...I actually haven't seen it at all, unless you count about 2 minuets at my local mall with really((and I mean really)) bad actors/actresses. Ah well, I guess my goal is to see it live before I am in it. But then I am not sure if they would let me stay the whole time since I would be singing along with all the songs. Hehe, I have memorized the whole score! I have the CD and I listend to it so much that I was sick of it((yeah for about a day!)) Now I love it again! Anywho I could go on and on, so before I that happens I better go! __________________ Emperor Cusco: Lemme guess. We're about to go down a huge water-fall. Pacha:Yep. Cusco: Sharp rocks at the bottum? Pacha:Most likely. Cusco:Bring it on. ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` Yes, I'm female. Fred Baggins is my NICKNAME! ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` "The reason of the unreasonable treatment of my reason so enfeebles my reason, that with reason I complain of your beauty."~Don Quixote ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` "Once upon a time there was a magical land where it never rained. The End."~from the movie 'Holes' ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` ()_))_Crayola_))_>

10-22-2002, 09:27 PM	#12
Laurelyn Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Valinor, right next to Telperion . . . what did you expect, Michigan? Posts: 1,315	I saw it live in Toronto 5 years ago. __________________ The Third Age of Entmoot has begun. Angel of music, guide and guardian! Grant to me your glory! The country I eat and spend the day in is by no means the country I sleep and dream in. Define patriotism. Hold the boat, you spastic monkey! ~ Elenka

10-22-2002, 09:29 PM	#13
emplynx Self-Appointed Lord of the Free Peoples of the General Messages Join Date: Nov 2001 Posts: 1,214	I'm a tenor in our Show Choir. We are pretty good this year. I hope to get a solo at the christmas concert

10-22-2002, 09:35 PM	#15
Fred Baggins Belladona Gamgee of the night sky Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: second star to the right and straight on till morning. Posts: 1,783	Throughs herself on the floor and has a tantrum NOFAIRNOFAIRNOFAIRNOFAIR!!!!!! Everyone gets to see it but me!!! WAH!!!!! anywho I am done now...calm, collected, afterall you are talking((wirting?)) to one of the only people who having not seen it still nows the entire score, word for word, and movement for movment. Just calming myself down, soory if that sounded to much like bragging. __________________ Emperor Cusco: Lemme guess. We're about to go down a huge water-fall. Pacha:Yep. Cusco: Sharp rocks at the bottum? Pacha:Most likely. Cusco:Bring it on. ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` Yes, I'm female. Fred Baggins is my NICKNAME! ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` "The reason of the unreasonable treatment of my reason so enfeebles my reason, that with reason I complain of your beauty."~Don Quixote ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` "Once upon a time there was a magical land where it never rained. The End."~from the movie 'Holes' ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` ()_))_Crayola_))_> Last edited by Fred Baggins : 10-22-2002 at 09:36 PM.

10-22-2002, 10:32 PM	#16
Starr Polish Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Slow down and I sail on the river, slow down and I walk to the hill Posts: 2,389	Are we really happy with these silly games we play...looking for words to say Hehe..a song our 'varsity' jazz choir sang last year called Masquerade. Ah, high b flat...yuuck...I've sung one though. __________________ “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.” –Bertrand Russell

10-23-2002, 09:28 AM	#17
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	I'm a soprano in our school choir - we've just started learning Christmas carols __________________ And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool.

10-23-2002, 02:17 PM	#18
Finrod Felagund King of Nargothrond Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Canada! eh? Posts: 2,002	I'm a tenor in four choirs at my school. The 170 voice Bluevale singers, the chamer choir, the male chorus and A Shade of Blue (Sr. Jazz choir) __________________ "THE EAGLES ARE COMING, THE EAGLES ARE COMING......AND A MOTH!!!!!"

10-23-2002, 04:03 PM	#19
Renille Elven Lady of Speed-posting Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the cheese state Posts: 988	Heehee...B flat! That is possibly one of the most awful notes ever invented. I've been way past that note, but only in warmups with my old vocal coach. But at the choral festival I went to yesterday...eek! I would guess about 50 sopranos were trying to hit that note at the end of one of our songs, a gospel called "Ride on King Jesus" Let me tell you, it was NOT pretty. At the final concert I was so disconcerted that I forced myself down to the second sopranos at the G. That made me feel better. I wish I was a second like last year...it was alot harder, but so much more interesting. And I was actually the minority. But I'd worked so much on my range and performance over the summer that it seemed a pity not to fly on to top notes!! I've never seen "Phantom" either. I love the music...so haunting. Has anyone ever seen or heard the Broadway edition of "The Secret Garden?" I love that soundtrack...it is the best. I wish I could see a live performance. Wow...that would be my dream come true. I get to go to Chicago with choir, band, and orchestra to see "The Lion King" on tour this summer!! I'm so happy. __________________ Oh the thinks you can think! Think and wonder and dream...far and wide as you dare! When your thinks have run dry, in the blink of an eye, there's another world there... (from Seussical the Musical. Listen to it...watch it...really.)

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